Java 7 for Fedora 16

[Marcela Mašláňová]

On 07/29/2011 04:55 PM, Deepak Bhole wrote:
> * Omair Majid <omajid at redhat.com> [2011-07-29 10:32]:
>> On 07/25/2011 04:04 PM, Deepak Bhole wrote:
>>> * Bill Nottingham<notting at redhat.com>  [2011-07-25 15:54]:
>>>> Toshio Kuratomi (a.badger at gmail.com) said:
>>>>> Robyn and I have talked about how the feature process could be adapted to
>>>>> allow for more late work to occur however none of that talk has turned into
>>>>> anything solid yet.  One point that bears on this is that the Feature Owners
>>>>> must be willing to commit to doing all the work involved in coordination
>>>>> when they submit something late.  In other words, if Java 7 update went in
>>>>> well before the feature deadline, the expectation would be that packagers
>>>>> whose packages depended on Java would need to adapt to Java 7.  The
>>>>> expectation now that the Feature Freeze has passed is that the people
>>>>> pushing Java 7 into the repos would also need to seek out and fix all the
>>>>> packages that depend on them that are broken.
>>>>
>>>> Would we actually be shipping only 7, or both 6 and 7?
>>>>
>>>
>>> This hasn't been debated yet, but I am very much in favour of having
>>> only 7 in Fedora 16.
>>>
>>> If the reason for asking was w.r.t re-builds, it is unlikely that most
>>> applications will need a rebuild -- only those using deprecated APIs
>>> (which would have been deprecated for years now) and private APIs would
>>> be affected. That would likely be a small subset.
>>
>> Have you seen the list of incompatibilities?
>>
>> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/compatibility-417013.html
>>
> 
> Thanks. I hadn't seen the full list, but I knew it'd fairly small
> given how much importance compatibility has been given in the past and
> for 7.
> 
> Unfortunately it is not possible to gauge how much Fedora will be
> affected by that :/ My biggest concern would be for apps using sun.*
> APIs. As mentioned above though, it should be a small percentage.
> 
> Cheers,
> Deepak

I found different warning about Java 7 changes:
http://www.lucidimagination.com/search/document/1a0d3986e48a9348/warning_index_corruption_and_crashes_in_apache_lucene_core_apache_solr_with_java_7

Does it impact also our Java? Anyway you will need exception if you want
Java 7 as a feature for F-16.
-- 
Marcela Mašláňová
BaseOS team Brno